Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

among the illustrations, but the reproduc-
tion now given will not be less interesting
because of the lapse of time. This open-air
portrait of a little girl, whose features hint
at a near relationship to the distinguished
artist, has been seen and, it is safe to say,
also admired by a vast number of people in
the course of the past four or five years, for
when, after the burning of our Houses of
Parliament early in 1916, the home of the
National Gallery was invaded by the
legislative body, its possessions had to go
into exile for lack of " alternative accommo-
dation." Many of the pictures were loaned
for exhibition at the summer fairs, but the
more valuable works were reserved for
shows in Toronto and Montreal, and after-
wards over the border at the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh. The collection thus
sent on tour comprised not far short of a
hundred pictures, ancient and modern, the
Orpens being amongst the latter, while the
former, among other notable works, in-
cluded a fine example by Frans Snyders,
the great Flemish animalier (see p. 166).

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" SURESNES—(AU FOND, LA TOU-
RELLE DE LA VILLA WORTH) "
BY J. B. C. C O R O T

(Barbizon House)

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Club, of which he became a member in
1898. He had at that time not long ter-
minated a course of study at the Slade
School under Professors Legros and
Brown, his earlier years having been spent
in the practice of heraldic painting to which
he was apprenticed as a youth. He himself
became a teacher in his later years and the
author of an excellent handbook for
students on " Water-Colour Painting."
His work as an artist was reviewed in an
article which appeared in our issue of
October, 1915, when numerous reproduc-
tions of his drawings were given, a a

OTTAWA.—A month before the great
war broke out the Director of the
National Gallery of Canada gave readers of
The Studio an account of some of the
recent acquisitions of his gallery, then
recently incorporated by statute and placed
under the control of a Board of Trustees.
Of two works by Orpen which he referred
to, one only, The Reflection, was reproduced;
the other, Mary, could not be included